Update: To make all this even better, the company who built the Death Star is under investigation for gross human rights abuses while building it. (Hat tip.)
It’s almost not-morning now, so I figure everyone’s stomachs are settled enough to read about our fancy new
embassy in Iraq, which opens today. It cost $700 million, which the AP writer manages to minimize by calling it merely the “largest embassy ever”, which is similar in scope and accuracy to calling the blue whale the largest fish ever. For this blogger at least remembers the plans for the “embassy”, which seems less like an embassy and more like a fortress palace.
Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. It will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of approximately 80 football fields.